Ex-NBA star Rodman charged with driving wrong way on California highway

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Tue Nov 22, 2016 | 12:27pm EST

Ex-NBA star Rodman charged with driving wrong way on California highway

By Alex Dobuzinskis | LOS ANGELES

Former pro basketball star Dennis Rodman has been charged with driving the wrong way on a California highway and forcing another car to swerve into a concrete dividing wall before he left the scene, prosecutors said.

The Orange County district attorney's office said it brought the hit-and-run charges against Rodman on Monday in connection with the July 20 incident in Santa Ana. The case represents the Hall of Fame player's latest brush with the law.

Rodman, a former National Basketball Association forward with the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls, drove his sport utility vehicle the wrong way on Interstate 5 in the carpool lane, prosecutors said in a statement. Prosecutors did not say whether the occupants of the other vehicle were injured.

Prosecutors charged Rodman, 55, with hit-and-run that causes property damage, driving a motor vehicle across a dividing section, giving false information to a police officer and driving without a valid license.

He faces up to two years in jail if convicted, and was ordered to appear in court on Jan. 20.

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[Brother Buzz]

1. So, does this shoot down his prospects of becoming ambassador to North Korea?

[Auggie]

2. Wrong way driving can be considered a mistake, but the other charges are deliberate and serious